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FUCK YOU.
Topher Cantler \| 12:53 AM on 08.11.2007	38 comments

Damn you, Puppet, you cursed me.

See you, space cowboy.

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35 comments | showing # 1 to 35

AngelsDontBurn says:
(# 0) on 08/11/2007 00:57

Ugh.. SAY IT AIN'T SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

SR388 says:
(# 1) on 08/11/2007 01:00

Ouch that sucks!!! Towel trick or Sending away to MS should do the trick. Hopefully they will put one of those slim and sexy 65nm Falcon chips in there.

topgeargorilla says:
(# 2) on 08/11/2007 01:01

bummer dude.
I don't even know what to say.

maybe you could get natalie portman and bury it in a cute little graveyard like in garden state. I bet that would cheer you up!

Riser Glen says:
(# 3) on 08/11/2007 01:03

Damn, man. These 360s are falling like dominoes.

Tristero says:
(# 4) on 08/11/2007 01:12

Is there anybody who this hasn't happened to?

Riser Glen says:
(# 5) on 08/11/2007 01:15

^^^
Excellent song.

Coonskin05 says:
(# 6) on 08/11/2007 01:26

@tristero- It hasnt happened to me and I've had mine for just under a year now.

@hushgush- I lol'ed at the thermometer.

Tristero says:
(# 7) on 08/11/2007 01:30

@coonskin

I'm about to get my first XBOX 360 in the mail and I haven't met anyone personally who hasn't had any problems. I'm glad to hear that yours is doing alright. Maybe some of your luck will rub off on me.

Poor Topher. Who's gonna talk shit about the next crappy Live Arcade game they give us now?

Coonskin05 says:
(# 8) on 08/11/2007 01:50

I think of it as a positive thing, now HushGush has more time to make quality graphics for Dtoid. Right, Topher? :)

atheistium says:
(# 9) on 08/11/2007 01:55

TOHOHO DID IT! I SAWDED!!!

the GAMEGOBLIN says:
(# 10) on 08/11/2007 01:58

Reeper says:
(# 11) on 08/11/2007 02:17

GAMEGOBLIN: l-o-fucking-l. good picture :D

-Blank- says:
(# 12) on 08/11/2007 02:19

:,'(

kawitchate says:
(# 13) on 08/11/2007 02:29

i feel your pain. mine didn't red ring, but it sure did broke. disc drive stopped reading discs. expect to be w/o a 360 for, oh, 2 months.

mid3vol says:
(# 14) on 08/11/2007 02:58

lol @ towel. i'm sorry topher, i'd be infuriated if that happened to me. atleast you still have your other consoles, i'm stuck with much less :]

bleep says:
(# 15) on 08/11/2007 07:08

huh dis

lowercaseluke says:
(# 16) on 08/11/2007 07:40

lollers I thought that thermometer was a pregnancy test.

Jim Sterling says:
(# 17) on 08/11/2007 08:42

Atheistium with the point.

This happened after you brought the dog into your homestead.

Horror approaches.

Neonie says:
(# 18) on 08/11/2007 09:52

Man all these 360's dieing is begning to scare me a little. It hasent happend to mine yet and I would be sooo PISSED if it happend before I got to play Bioshock.

Kotua says:
(# 19) on 08/11/2007 10:27

Dude that sucks. It also happened to me a while back.
Hopefully the towel trick will work for you.
It didn't for me.

BahamutZero says:
(# 20) on 08/11/2007 10:42

another one bites the dust. here's a cute picture to ease your pain.

entrager says:
(# 21) on 08/11/2007 10:48

I'm still 360less, but my brother-in-law's launch box is still fine too.

Time to play Wii for a few weeks?

Pangloss says:
(# 22) on 08/11/2007 11:07

My heart goes out to you. It happened to me around February, right in the middle of an 8-man LAN game of Gears. I was just a tad bit inconsolable.

Topher Cantler says:
(# 23) on 08/11/2007 11:18

Thank you, Bahamut, that's very kind of you.

I toweled it last night, now it plays for about 5 minutes before it dies again. Same thing with or without the HDD connected. I'll be ordering a coffin for it today.

Professor Pew says:
(# 24) on 08/11/2007 12:09

Topher, don't towel it. If you do it too often, you will only totally fubar your internal components. Unless you know for sure you will get a totally different box from MS when you send it for repairs.

Topher Cantler says:
(# 25) on 08/11/2007 12:18

Nah, I just did it once or twice. Now it's just laying on the floor so I can give it dirty looks until the box gets here.

Professor Pew says:
(# 26) on 08/11/2007 13:05

Ok, just to be safe :)
I hope you'll have it back soon! There is also a brazilian fix as short-term solution. Also not recommended..

BahamutZero says:
(# 27) on 08/11/2007 13:28

Pew, that's not funny, my friend died that way

JLanphear says:
(# 28) on 08/11/2007 16:16

My box is fine. I got mine early last year and it still works, but my friend bought one last month and it red-ringed the very first startup. It was so f'ing ghey.

LostCrichton says:
(# 29) on 08/11/2007 20:42

Sorry to hear of your recent loss. Hopefully you'll be back up on XBL soon.

Poor baby has Red Ringworm. Just give it some hot tea and toast and it'll be up-and-at-'em in no time.

Pedro Blandino says:
(# 31) on 08/13/2007 00:48

is my xbox360 the last of the lunch batch not to red ring*knock on wood*??

Azereki says:
(# 32) on 08/14/2007 06:14

I stole your post for my clog. Sorry. :(
//Shameless plug.

jdissofakinggreat says:
(# 33) on 08/20/2007 21:46

jaja luzers. ib had my 360 4 over 2 years now & ib never had a problem . even on xbla 4 players all niters. so don't say that its all bad . suck it up princes

Amethystine says:
(# 34) on 08/21/2007 12:35

Yeah, that sucks. I'm now on my 3rd Xbox 360. The first stopped reading anything and the second got the red rings. It's like a once a year thing with me now.

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